

If your smartphone is only a year or two old, it’ll take better pictures than this. Noise levels jump up when you step indoors, and the level of detail isn’t all that impressive. Everywhere else, it struggles to balance highlights and shadows without throwing the darker areas into silhouette. There’s no optical image stabilisation, only basic HDR processing that often struggles in scenes with varied light intensity, and no 4K video recording.įeed it enough light and outdoor photos look decent enough, as long as you’re shooting an evenly lit scene. With a modest 8 megapixels and f/1.9 aperture, the Tab S6 Lite’s rear camera isn’t going to blow you away with its quality. Mids and high-end notes are clear enough, with just a hint of distortion when you really crank it, but you’ll still want some headphones for bass-heavy listening. They get impressively loud and have good separation once you turn on Dolby Atmos virtual surround sound, which helps give streaming video that extra dab of immersion, but there’s not much in the way of low-end. For the price, though, there’s little to complain about, with largely balanced hues that make pictures and videos appear easy on the eye.ĪKG-branded stereo speakers sit at the top and bottom of the tablet, which makes them best suited for horizontal use.

There’s no HDR support here, and if you aren’t a fan of the out-the-box colours there’s not much you can do about it, as there’s no colour temperature or white balance controls buried in the Settings screen. Step outside and you won’t struggle to see what’s on screen.

Contrast isn’t nearly as good when watching dark and moody Netflix dramas, but otherwise colours still have lots of punch, and the display gets plenty bright enough too. You get an LCD screen, rather than AMOLED, so Samsung could keep costs down. The biggest loss here is panel technology.

On paper, the Lite doesn’t lose out all that much compared to the Tab S6 on the display front – sure, it’s 0.1in smaller across, and resolution takes a bigger hit, but 2000×1200 is still more than Full HD, so video streaming doesn’t suffer.
